First, read the "Best Practices" thread, I explain how these forums were built.
Secondly, I am not using a program, or paying a commercial Forum company like EZBoards or phpBB or vBulletin to use the forums. I have full control over the code, and can integrate it into the site, unlike EZBoards.
Forums have many similarities, so you will see forums that look like this one. You probably won't see one that can integrate within the site so well. You might see other .NET forums running the same base code, its open source, with which developers can do whatever they want with.
Having said that, we basically can do whatever we want with these forums. Before you get too gungho, other forums have been around a long time, so I probably won't be adding advanced features that would take me months to build. This is an Everquest site, not a Forum commercial site. So, sorry to say, but no spell checking capabilities. Even if I implemented it, I'd be worried about the performance.
So, if you see anything that you'd really like to see in the forums, you can let me know and I'll look into it.